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▪ I. skirmishing, vbl. n.|ˈskɜːmɪʃɪŋ|
Forms: (see the vb.).
[f. skirmish v.]
The action of engaging, or taking part, in a skirmish or skirmishes.
α. β.c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1910 Ariadne, So hyt happed, that at a skarmysshynge [v.r. scarmuchyng, etc.], She caste hir hert vpon Mynos the kynge. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xviii. 54 Whan prisouners be taken in scarmyshyng or otherwyse. c1500Melusine 131 Thenne bygan the scarmusshing of strong & grete and moche mortal. 1533Bellenden Livy i. xx. (S.T.S.) I. 116 The fulich gabynis..straik sindri small skarmischingis and batallis aganis þe romanis. a1600Hist. Jas. VI (Bann. Cl.) 128 He fell in the hands of the said capten efter a light scarmeshing.
γ1592Soliman & Pers. iv. i, The self same musick that in auncient daies Brought Alexander..from skirmishing to kissing. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 180 Wearied with the heat of the day and long skirmishing. 1724De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 259 An infinite number of party skirmishings..happened. 1839James Louis XIV, I. 307 Merely the skirmishing of light troops before the commencement of a general battle. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 333 Mackay, meanwhile, wasted some weeks..in indecisive skirmishing.
attrib.1858Brock Havelock xiii. 210 Advance was made in skirmishing order on the entrenched quadrangles.
fig.1656Artif. Handsom. 42 Which are but light skirmishings, and not serious contendings in matters of Religion. 1687in Magd. Coll. Collect. (O.H.S.) 166 All this was but skirmishing in respect of what was done on Saturday. 1864Bowen Logic x. 338 Little is to be hoped for from the skirmishings..and desultory movements of the intellect.
▪ II. skirmishing, ppl. a.|ˈskɜːmɪʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec.]
Engaging in a skirmish or skirmishes; designed for skirmishing.
1781in Simes Milit. Guide (ed. 3) 8 [The Adjutant-general] gives and signs all the orders for skirmishing parties. 1799Cavalry Instr. (1813) 269 Skirmishing detachments are usually made of a flank division or subdivision. 1873Tristram Moab i. 9 The wild fellows were thrown out on all sides, and formed a skirmishing front all the way.
Hence ˈskirmishingly adv., in a skirmishing manner.
1848Dickens Dombey xxxv, The upholsterer's foreman..skirmishingly measuring expensive objects. 1889Chamb. Jrnl. 5 Oct. 638/1 What loading-up he did was very skirmishingly effected from the rear. |